This really is a great insight. A window into p2p decentralized systems' future. No one could've guessed in their wildest dreams what the internet would be giving us today (including the trolls). Bitcoin presents an amazing system of credibility that takes human corruption out of the picture. What it will be used for is yet to be known. So again we're in a new era where the nerds educate the luddites on a potentially monumental advancement.
I think this is why we get so much resistance.
Down deep, people don't like creative types. Geeks are creative, their canvas is a processor, their paints are the higher-level languages that tell it what to do. Geeks understand the abstract. You have to, just to visualize how functions work and how to make programs flow the way you want them to.
Regular people don't like creative people, because it takes insight, some smarts, and just general ability. Even if you don't brag about it, just the fact that you can DO the things you can makes regular people uncomfortable. It usually manifests in the stumbling awkward admission of "...well, I wish I could do what you do..."
The "norms" believe that learning abstract concepts is out of their reach, so they resent someone who grasps it easily.
No wonder the first thing that leaps from their lips is "funny internet money" and "tulips" and "I'll make BOBCOIN, LOLOLOL HERE'S 100 BOBCOINS FOR YOU". It's the easy-and-obvious way to strike back at someone that has this idea that they can't immediately grasp. They don't even try to.
And frankly, after trying for a good amount of time, rebutting every FUD piece, writing scathing replies to those that openly attack Bitcoin, I had to scale back. That was just my personal decision, but its also a very geek-oriented one, isolating the problem and routing around it.
And that's where we are - in the middle of routing around all of these people who think Bitcoin is inconsequential and useless. Imagine their surprise, when they are smacked with it front-and-center, intruding into their lives. Perhaps it will be the full "wrap" advertisement on a Bus, or the fact there's that funny "B" symbol on their dinner menu. Even better, if during a job interview, they're asked a random Bitcoin question, just to see if they're keeping up with current technologies.
That's when it will be driven home, that sinking despair that perhaps the geeks weren't wrong, every mocking word now a chained weight around their neck, submerged in the dark waters of regret.
